Rachel
Harrison

Rachel Harrison assembles, reworks and showcases everyday objects that have been found, bought or received. Papier-mâché, tins and bin bags constitute, with her intervention, organic sculptures blurring the lines between "handmade" and "ready made", between the complete and the incomplete, between the monumental and the fragile. Her work is not confined to sculpture: drawings, photographs and installations are also ways of questioning, often with humour, the relationship between art, popular culture and subjectivity. “I want people to be real with art, to be conscious and present with the object in order to experience it”, she says. 

Rich in colours and paradoxes, Harrison’s work is in the vein of Pop Art, expressionism and art brut. Her contemporary totems in the manner of John Locke, and her drawings of celebrities like Amy Winehouse, have made her a leading figure on the international art scene. 

Rachel Harrison’s work was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the 2009 exhibition "Mapping the Studio" at the Palazzo Grassi.